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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Bridging Domains
Karen and Sanjeev (MBA 1986) Mehra Karen and Sanjeev Mehra (MBA 1986) perceive both great opportunities and serious challenges at the nexus of business, science, and engineering. Their endowment of the Mehra Family HBS/SEAS Collaboration... View Details
- 06 Nov 2014
- News
Building a Startup Community Beyond Commencement
includes the provost and the Harvard school deans), making the case that the project’s model—open to startups employing a graduate of any Harvard school—would offer the kind of cross disciplinary collaboration sought by the “One Harvard”... View Details
- September 2014
- Supplement
Netflix: Designing the Netflix Prize (B)
By: Karim R. Lakhani, Wesley M. Cohen, Kynon Ingram, Tushar Kothalkar, Maxim Kuzemchenko, Santosh Malik, Cynthia Meyn, Stephanie Healy Pokrywa and Greta Friar
This supplemental case follows up on the Netflix Prize Contest described in Netflix: Designing the Netflix Prize (A). In the A case, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings must decide how to organize a crowdsourcing contest to improve the algorithms for Netflix's movie... View Details
Keywords: Crowdsourcing; Prizes; Digitization; Algorithms; Recommendation Software; Disruption; Transformation; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Knowledge Sharing; Applications and Software
Lakhani, Karim R., Wesley M. Cohen, Kynon Ingram, Tushar Kothalkar, Maxim Kuzemchenko, Santosh Malik, Cynthia Meyn, Stephanie Healy Pokrywa, and Greta Friar. "Netflix: Designing the Netflix Prize (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 615-025, September 2014.
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Everything Old Is a New Opportunity
Stephen Johnston (photo by Gary Laufman) For a mobile-focused business entrepreneur, Stephen Johnston (MBA 2002) is more than a bit of a contrarian. Unlike many of his peers, Johnston, 41, has his sights set not on emerging nations but on the developed world, mostly in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Research Brief: Great Expectations
coauthors Ke Wang and Erica R. Bailey. (“Pygmalion effect” refers to a psychological phenomenon in which a person performs better when more is expected of them.) Jachimowicz and his collaborators found that people who are enthusiastic... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
@Soldiers Field
LLC Last month, the School unveiled the Wall of Recognition of Service to Country. The 10,000-pound granite sculpture—a collaboration between the administration and the Armed Forces Alumni Association—recognizes those from HBS “who have... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Strategists analyze market forces—great strategists also look beyond the market
stumbles in dealing with public opposition," says Oberholzer-Gee. He and HBS collaborator Dennis Yao, the Lawrence E. Fouraker Professor of Business Administration, have developed a diagnostic tool to help companies assess the value that... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Connecting people and policymakers in a conversation online
but our voices matter every day.” The Agora gives participants the opportunity to express concerns, “vote” in polls, and exchange ideas amongst themselves and with political leaders. With pilots running in collaboration with Harvard... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
Organizational Behavior Unit, Assistant Professor Tsedal Neeley researches global collaboration with special emphasis on the intrapersonal, interpersonal, and intergroup challenges of working across national boundaries. While a principal... View Details
- Web
Corporate Finance: Corporate Financial Operations (CFO) - Course Catalog
Course Content and Organization As a consequence of differences in perspectives, finance leaders and other operators often fail to collaborate effectively. Finance teams focus on the value implications of core business decisions. However,... View Details
- Web
IT Strategy: Improving Service to Support Innovation | Information Technology
for all members of the HBS community. Replaced over 2,000 aged PCs that were delayed due to hardware funding cuts. Renovated the Shad IT service lobby to include space for TSS to collaborate with customers, and to feature a fully... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
A Growing Drumbeat
Innovation Lab opens on Western Avenue. (Announced last October, the i-lab will serve as a hub for innovation and collaboration across Harvard and beyond.) In the classroom, Eisenmann’s new course, Launching Technology Ventures (“How you... View Details
Keywords: Contests
- 03 Dec 2024
- News
From One to Many
In the years after Keith Ferrazzi (MBA 1992) published Never Eat Alone, he confessed some reluctance in being labeled “the networking guy.” “But 20 years after writing that first book, and after coaching thousands of teams, I’ve finally recognized there’s a... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Thomas C. Høegh
Internet. "My next big project," explains Høegh, "will be a multimedia collaborative outdoor spectacle that will tour the globe, with performances involving local people as well as a worldwide online audience. It will be an attempt to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support
support. And the Rwanda-based staff traveled to India to procure machinery to make sanitary pads. Meanwhile, a team at North Carolina State University has developed the fiber process for the filling of the pads, and the Rwanda Workforce Development Authority has View Details
- 08 Feb 2016
- News
Alumni in Mexico City Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS
Campaign was launched in April 2014 to raise $1 billion over the next five years to support innovation in the curriculum, faculty research, and collaboration across the Harvard community, and to support an unprecedented alumni outreach... View Details
- 05 Feb 2016
- News
The Wheel of the World
full-time attention to horology, serving as chairman of the National Watch and Clock Library and as a member of the collections committee for the National Watch and Clock Museum, both located in Columbia, Pennsylvania. He is also building a wiki-style, View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Modupe Akinola: Outreach In Africa
reading, writing, and math,” she explains. “I wanted to bring that idea to Ghana.” With the cooperation and input of local nongovernmental organizations and a $350,000 grant from the Danish government, Akinola collaborated with a teacher... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Porter Course Goes Abroad
competitiveness and economic development,” states Porter, “yet many universities lack the size and resources to develop teaching materials and mount courses in this area.” While participants concur that this hightech, long-distance View Details
- 02 Oct 2012
- News
Green Pioneer
White House conference on environmental quality that convened engineering firms and federal procurement officials, both the Defense Department and the EPA approached the Zofnass Program to learn more about Envision. Zofnass Program director Pollalis has called it a... View Details